Working with Buckminster Fuller & World Game
August Jaccaci with Buckminster Fuller
at Boston Collage, 1970.
As the new Arts Assistant to Boston College President Seavey Joice, SJ, Jaccaci recommended R. Buckminster Fuller for an honorary degree at graduation. In subsequent visits a design and playing of Fuller's World Game was held the following summer at Boston College (1970). The world Game was planned for the American Previlion at the World's Fair in Montreal, but the United States State Department opted to eliminate that part of Fuller's design for the space. He had intended to show visitors how the world could be run on a daily basis as a human success story. The replacement exhibit featured American pop culture.
A few summers later, the World Game was played in a learning studio in New York City and the following summer Jaccaci hosted the game and Bucky Fuller at Boston College. World Game used Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxium Map which laid out the major continents of the world as a single island surrounded by water. The purpose of this array was to research all the resources of available to humanity and consider their redistribution for optimum human and planetary health on a daily basis.
The ambitious reach of Fuller's creative compassion for humanity and a workable world has been a lifetime inspiration to Jaccaci.
A few summers later, the World Game was played in a learning studio in New York City and the following summer Jaccaci hosted the game and Bucky Fuller at Boston College. World Game used Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxium Map which laid out the major continents of the world as a single island surrounded by water. The purpose of this array was to research all the resources of available to humanity and consider their redistribution for optimum human and planetary health on a daily basis.
The ambitious reach of Fuller's creative compassion for humanity and a workable world has been a lifetime inspiration to Jaccaci.
Buckminster Fuller with my son Tony at the First World Congress of the New Age
August Jaccaci's son, Tony, with Buckminster Fuller, in Florence, Italy, 1978.
Buckminster Fuller participated in the Congress to the delight of everyone there. He offered a morning series of class to teach his discovery of the primacy of geometry as a thinking process for human harmony. At the Congress, Fuller became friends with Derald Langham, the creator of 13-dimensional Genesa Geometry, also used as a thinking tool for synthesis and harmony.
In the image to the left, Tony Jaccaci is holding an icosahedron which is the underlying structure of Fuller's Dymaxium Map and World Game playing surface.
In the image to the left, Tony Jaccaci is holding an icosahedron which is the underlying structure of Fuller's Dymaxium Map and World Game playing surface.